Furthermore, he noted that as economic diversification is crucial to the success of the nation’s economy, the National Assembly is working to pass laws that will “boost internally generated revenues by plugging the loopholes that exist in our system, and encouraging the small and medium-scale business owners in our communities
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A statement by the APC’s spokesman in the state, Steve Otaloro, said the decision of Mimiko to use a large chunk of the budget to service debt and not to embark on any capital project this year was wrong
The statement explained that Fidelis had participated in the promo and was called through MTN line 180 on October 10, 2012 that he had won N2 million in the Ultimate Wonder Promo
Buhari returned on Wednesday evening
The Board took the decision on Wednesday when it met at the party’s headquarters in Abuja
The Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency in the North East, Mohammed Kanar, said some of the dead have been buried, while the injured have been moved to medical facilities for adequate treatments
A statement by Bello’s media aide, Abdulmalik Abdulkarim, said Achuba is a seasoned administrator with diverse experience in local government administration and legislative governance.
The Committee however announced the various roads abandoned by the contractors to include dualization of Otupko township roads and others in the South South and South East
In a petition entitled “Request for the prosecution of persons involved in conspiring and perpetrating acts of electoral fraud and malfeasance in the governorship election of June 21, 2014 in a manner other than that envisaged by the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended,” the party said the review of the matter had become imperative in the national interest to avoid a cycle of politicians that could seize the reins of government through treason
The error was admitted by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning in a statement
The DSS in a statement by Tony Opuiyo on Tuesday said the civil servant, Uwem Udo Ekpo, a Chief Programme Analyst in the Office of the Accountant General of the Fedration, was working with a gang led by one Sunny Okoh, a hacker
Folarin said: “It is true one of our officers attached to the Ooni’s palace was shot dead by some unidentified persons in front of a private residence of the Ooni.
The soldiers protested at the secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists in Kaduna, Kaduna State, pleading for reabsorption into the Nigerian Army
he Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, who made the revelation in a statement on Tuesday, listed the items recovered from Nwokorie and Fortune to include one smoke grenade; 2,136 live rounds of 7.62 (Special) ammunition; 50 live rounds of 7.6mm (NATO) ammunition; five magazines of AK 47 rifles; and two Browning Machine Gun live rounds of ammunitions.
“Troops of 7 Brigade Quick Reaction Force (QRF), Multinational Joint Task Force, yesterday inflicted casualties on Boko Haram terrorists, thus causing a major setback to the insurgents. This feat was achieved when the troops staged an ambush against the terrorists at Kekeno, Kukawa Local Government Area. During the operation, the gallant troops killed 5 suspected Boko Haram terrorists, recovered one Toyota Buffalo vehicle, 3 AK-47 rifles, 2 knives, a horse and other locally fabricated weapons
“President Buhari was asked about the flood of migrants from Nigeria and the fraudulent applications for asylum put in by people desperate to leave their motherland at any cost, and it was this question that elicited his response,” Shehu said, encouraging Nigerians to avail themselves of a full text of the interview, which has now been made available on the Telegraph’s website
This was disclosed by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, in a statement on Tuesday
The remodeling of the airports was started by the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration
Addressing members of the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-governmental Affairs and members of the House of Representatives Committee on Special Duties in Abuja on Tuesday, Arabi disclosed that N3.2 billion of the budget was earmarked for the upgrade of State House Clinic to a Centre of Excellence
Adeosun, who was responding to queries by the committee on the irregular balances in the TSA, said the account kept record of government’s income and expenditure on daily basis